Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1913 — Obituary of Gerhard H. Alberding. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of Gerhard H. Alberding.

Gerhard H. Alberding was born March 12th, 1840, Wildeshansen, Oldenburg, Germany, and departed this life December 28th, 1912, of pneumonia, at the well-preserved age of 72 years, 9 months and 16 days.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Ernest Bremon, at the Lutheran church, San Pierre, Ind., on Dec. 31st, 1912. After the funeral service the remains were laid to rest in ithe cemetery at San Pierre by the side of his father. He was the second youngest child n the family oi four children of Mr. and Mrs. August H. Alberding, two brothers preceding him .in death. Herman died in Ripley county, this, state, and was kt one time in business at San Pierre, and will be well remembered by the survivors of the early settlers. Fred lost his life in the army serving the union. One sister, Mrs. Dora Kock, aged 84 years, of Campbell, Neb., survives. In January, 1866, he was married to Gensine Luken, at the Evangelist Lutheran church, Oldenburg, Germany, to which union were born eleven children, four departing this life in infancy. July 8, 1868, father, wife and baby daughter left their native country and landed at San Pierre, Ind., in July, where his brother, Herman, and father were then living, and in a few days moved on a farm near San Pierre in Cass township, Pulaski county, Indiana, and it has been their home all of the 44 years, and where the mother still resides.

He was a good and loving father and husband, greatly devoted to his home, wife and children, his devotion extending not only to his own children, but to those that came to him in the dark days of distress and needed aid, to those he administered comfort. And there has been taken from our midst a loving husband and father, and a kind neighbor, leading us in the path of righteousness. He leaves a wife, seven children, one sister, nineteen grandchildren and other relatives, with a host of friends to mourn his death. His children surviving are, Mrs. Katie Menge, San Pierre; Mrs. Dora Knofs, Medaryville; Herman, Winamac; A. H. Alberding, Salem, Ind.; Henry F. Alberding, North Judson, Ind; George J. Alberding, Logansport, Ind., and Charlie J. Alberding, of San Pierre, Ind.